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MODERN MEDICAL
TREATMENT
Study Of
Hereditary Diseases
The sections of the British Medical discussion, led by Dr. E. C. Dodds, i Association began their meetings on "The Sex Glands, their, anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry." The yesterday in Belfast.
moncs.
atid of hor-i
AUGUST 11, 1937.
President Eamon De Valera of the Irish Free State, who failed to get an absolute majority in the recent Free State cicetions.
9 WOMEN GET PENSIONS
ONE WROTE THE WORLD'S LONGEST POEM
A joint meeting was held by the speaker dealt first with the isolation rections of Medicine and Pathology, of the hormones of these glands and Bacteriology and Immunology, the then proceeded to discuss therapeutic
'measures, It could now be stated} subject of discussion being "The
with certainty, he declared, that thej Haemorrhagic States."
labours of the biologist and the ur Dr. L. J. Witts opened the discus-ganie chemist had placed in the hands. sion. He was, he said, increasingly of the clinician a series of very power- impressed by the frequency and
ful therapeutic substances, No long- diversity of hereditary nemorrhagle
er was it possible for the practitioner' diseases and by their resistance to to doubt the activity of endocrine treatment. The study of hereditary products. ft he would take the diseases in mon had been vitiated by trouble it was possible for him to premature dogmatism and by the obtain highly potent, stable, expectation of a constancy in the model Standardized preparailons of inheritance which the student of
A discussion on Enteric Fever was genetics in plants and animals would
have thought Im-opened in the Section of Hygiene and from the first
Public Health by Dr. Jolin Ritchie. probable. Hereditary haemorrhagle states in man were not subject to im-
It was not necessary, he said, to mutable laws in pattern and pedigree adduce statistical evidence as to the and it was wiser to think in terms of great diminution in the invidence of THE woman who wrote the affected family groups than of speci culerica in recent years. When a longest poem in the world, ne diseases and laws of heredity. The death rate
ate dropped more or less hereditary haemorrhagle
diseases steadily from 380 a million in 2070 Miss Katherine Margaret Buck; provided some of the most pathetle to four a million in 1935 there could Miss "Cicely Hamilton," actress, be no serious doubt that the disease dramatist, novelist, journalist; Mr. Arnold Dolmetsch, learned The local application of coagulant was becoming less snake venoms was the only now treat-generation or two ago enteric was in old music and old musical in-
onc in practice. ment whose value had been confirm-familiar to every
was almost 2 clinical struments; are among 15 men ed. The venom of Russell's viper To-day it
and women recipients of Civil or of the curiosity. (1 In 10,000 solution)
in 5,000 Australian tiger snake (1
The hypothesis that insanitary can- List pensions, announced recent- had been chiefly used ditions were the cause of infectiously. solution) (Macfarlane Rosenfeld and Lenke, 1835). Loose belief that they were responsible for clot was
was washed away from the bleed- its spread, and the acceptance of the land Dietrich Sago," a retelling of ing point, and tampons or
But Smith. attitude towards prevention. propriate dressings soaked in theater view had greatly influenced the the legends relating to venom solution were then applied. nothing had happened to modify the With the use of snake venom
in orthodox belief that the prevention haemophilia it was now possible to of epidemic enterie was essentially a repair wounds or to carry out still matter of protecting drinking-water operations such as dental extraction and food, especially milk, from speci- which would previously have been Re infection. fatal.
cancs.
common.
:
and Larnett, 1034; disease had been replaced by the Miss Buck's poem is "The Way-
OBSTETRICS AND CYNAECOLOGY
other
Summing-up, the speaker said that,! first, enterle fever should whenever possible be treated in hospital. In the Section of Obstetrics and Secondly, every outbreak should be Gynaecology a paper was read by Dr. fully studied by an expert bacterio- and logist. Investigation of the channels G. F. Gibberd on "Prontos Similar Compounds in the Treatment of spread should be checked by re- of Puerperal Haemolytic Strepto-peated examinations of sewage, water, and milk. If it were done regularly coccus Infections."
our control over enteric fever would be materially increased.
He said that the new aniline deri- vatives had been employed at Queen' Charlotte's Hospital since 1936; in the doses in which they had been given their use appeared to be free from serious danger and had been follow- in the ed by a very great
Fom Won Bride at
mortality rate for honic strep" | tococcal infection. Analysis of the causes of this improvement in nor- it was as- tulity rale showed that it soclated mainly with a decrease in the haemolytic streptococcus rather the widespread invasion of tissues by than with
a greater tendency to re- solution of the disease once wide-. spread invasion of tissues had occur- red. This feature made it necessary to consider whether the Improvement since January, 1930, was due to the effeney of the treatment or whether it was due to a change in the viru-" lence of the prevalent organism. was possible that both factors might be concerned.
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DEATH OF MR. CHARLES SULLIVAN
OLD EMPLOYEE OF TAIKOO SUGAR REFINERY
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Born in Ireland 57 years ago, Mr.
After having been in ill health for acute shortage
residence, particularly engineers, which is being many years, Mr. Charles des Vocux
Sullivan died at his felt in England, in Hongkong and Dragon Terrace, Happy Valley, yes- the Far East, and in almost all parts terday. A funeral service is to be of the world, has reached a critical held to-morrow at the Chapel stage in Australia where, according Resurrection at 5.30 p.m. to a report by the secretary of the Merchant
Service Guild, Captain W.
Sullivan come to Hongkong carly in G. Lawrence, "probably the supply the century to take up a position of men has never been so low as it with the Taikoo Sugar Refinery, and is at present."
until about Ave remained there In Hongkong, shipping companies years ago when he retired because £00 are having increasing dificulty in of ill health.
He is survived by a widow, four filing their vessels with certificated £70 British officers, and while consider sons and five daughters. There are
able number of officers (last year also relatives in Muita, £110 about 30) leave here for positions in
England, it is becoming increasingly
80 dificult to find young men willing to CRUSHED TO DEATH
leave the Home country to work in
the Far East. Positions with reason-
ably good pay are plentiful in Eng- land, and the alightly more attractive
INQUEST ON CONTRACTOR KILLED BY LANDSLIDE not compensate for living on entering verdict returned by a Coroner's jury
Death by misadventure Also, the number of men
20 points to a position inbrose do
In non-fatal cases in which tissues still exists, and tradition dies so hard beyond the limits of the birth canal that members continue to think twice had been invaded by the haemolytic before they "pop the question." streptococcus there was some clinical evidence that the new drugs did What, then, will be the consterna- actually hasten the resolution of the tion of the bachelors when they learn Inflammatory process, and this was that one of their number has not only good reason for believing that the
Ross to had the boldness to propose on the! treatment, rather than a change in
the
has been accepted
History virulence of the organism, was res-premises--but ponsible for the improvement in this there! tilrection. While he was unwilling to
This shatterer of precedent is hand- The Political Correspondent writes: guess how far the new drugs had been responsible for the undoubted some Mr. Robert Arbuthnott Hunter. These Civil Liai grants come under Improvement which had followed 20-years-old Oxford graduate, man- the old scale of pensions, for it was June 1 that the most recent their clinical use, there was every about-town, and solicitor, of Milner-notist Bill got its third reading reason to continue to employ them street, Cadogan-square, S.W., who is in the House of Commons. until their value or otherwise was
to marry Miss Melanie Grant, aged Under the Bill next year's grants Armly established.
23, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will will amount to £2,000, instead of
this year's total of £1,200.
RESPONSE TO DRUGS
The Section of Pharmacology and Therapeutics dealt with "Individual Variation In Response to Drugs," the ilscussion being opened by Dr. A. J. Clark.
Individual variation, he said, was nn unattractive subject because Ita existence constituted a limilation to therapeutic measures of an annoying
and
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FUTURE OF SHIPPING
An official statement in the
the
a
Was
the
the profession are decreasing. Ships at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, ping companies, both in England and at the close of an inquest on se coll Australia, have been employing large tractor who was crushed in a land- few slide in Argyle Street on July 18. Mr. numbers of older men who years ago would have stood no chance E. Himsworth, Arst Kowloon Magis- against the many younger men with trate, sat as Coroner, and was assist
Naval expan-ed by good qualiflentions.
Rounds
ids (Foreman), H. P. C. Poon sion is given as one reason for the jury comprising Messrs. K. K. shortage, but the main reason is that and Leung Hung-fan. the "rolling main" no longer holds
Detective Sergeant James Forrest the lure for adventurous youth which
present for the police. it did years ago nowadays the alr! holds the imagination and the man.
будя
It
was stated in evidence that the contractor, Ho Shu, nged 40, was the master of the Tung Yick Wal Com- pany, whi
which on July 18, was work-
Entering The Navy One overseas trading company in ing on a granite quarry in Argyle Heavy Australia reports that recently it lost Street, near Waterloo Road.
simul- ra
rain fell that day, and after a blast nine of its officers almost The scheme was submitted to a
taneously.
They were
Dm.. the contractor, all Royal was made at 6 representative meeting of owners of
Under an with several stonebreakers, went to and Irrational character. produced following terms was issued by British deep sea tramp tonnage of Naval Reserve Men. therapeutle method had satisfactory results in a dozen cases the Chamber of Shipping recent- 2,500 tons gross and upwards held at alteration to regulations in Britain the spot, and preparations were made
the next day, It seemed irrational that the samely under the heading of "Tramp the Chamber on July 23. At that the R.N.R. men are now able to enter for another blast to take place the Suddenly the hillside caved in, and meeting the general principles under the navy provided they have
many aro technique should have at undesirable Freight Cooperation":---
lying the scheme were explained by right qualifications, and
Young
was buried in a mer the contractor effect in the next case on which it
request of Following the
taking this opportunity. was tried.
It seemed probable that
Government that the industry would the chairman, Sir Vernon Thomson, the extent of individual variation was so organize itself as to ensure that the and it was carefully considered in cantile officers, too, are leaving the quantity of decomposed rock and The meeting unanimously sea in considerable numbers to be earth. The stonebreakers were only consistently under-estimated, because
Bystem of freight cooperation adminis- foutline. the principle of continuing come navigators in the Royal Air slightly injured, and managed to un an individual representing a tered under the subsidy would con-
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Force. A capable third officer who cover the contractor, who was found cooperation in the industry on a to be extreme variation happened encountered in a small group the inue, and the undertakings given on voluntary basis and decided that earns about £ll a month at sen can lying face downwards over the sharp living, but died before the arrival of result was apt to be discounted as an behalf of the industry to that effect, further study should be given to do earn £28 a month in the Royal Air edge of a granite rock. fie was still
the Tramp Shipping Administrative talls of the scheme, with a view to a
a Force. accident. The ovidence available
ble Committee (to whom the task was Anal decision ns to ils precise form, both Australia and Britain have been
During the past five years ships in an ambulance.
A post mortem was held by Dr. G. Buggested, however, that whenever
entrusted by the Chamber of Ship in the early autumn. The schema was possible to measure quantitative
in ping) have for some time been workt-would be required to come into opern-laid up in considerable numbers but II. Henry the next day. Death was AN RKO WEEK. 7 OLD FAVOURITES, EACH FOR 1 DAY ONLY by the effects produced by a drug in ing on a scheme for cooperation. ton at the conclusion of the current these have now been re-absorbed, and due to mureBoth the contractors a large population an orderly dis devised and controlled by the industry year during wilch the subsidy ad-it is estimated that a further 300 ships haemorrhage. Both the contractor's tribution of variation in response wes itself containing a sanction to secure ministration is still operative, but are almost ready to enter trade from legs were broken and deeply cut, his revealed. If this were the case, then its uniform and effective operation. would not operate unill the owners
docks in Britain. All these ships will pelvis was fractured, and two ribs the laws of probability indicated that The main object of this secheme would of 90 per cent of British tramp have to be manned largely by men were broken,
'very large populations were
Just entering the profession, since the studied Cecasional Individuals would be to continue and develop the co- tonnage concerned aro certified to
the have subscribed to it. It would older hands already have positions. Shipping continue until December 31, 1935, show very wide deviations from the operation administered
Large numbers of engineers and neute than that of deck officers and mean response, These exceptional subsidy period by the
unless sooner determined by the inomcers, too, make only a couple of hands, is partly brought about by the undoubtedly individuals were
trips before being offered profitable increasing number of engineers ra- nuisance from the clinical standpoint, Sub-Committees, including the ob-dustry e
servance of minimum freight rates
employment ashore. The shortage of quired by industry ashoro as it deve but their existence had to be re- and conditions, standard forms of *Meetings were held in the morning engineers, which is probably more fops in the post-depression boom. cognized.
charter and National Maritime Board and afternoon, the earlier meeting THE GLANDS
Agreements, and the regulation of being concerned more with principles
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